: Performance tuning often involves consideration of adding another server to the system. Owing to changes in technology, the additional server may be of a service rate different f...
In this paper, we propose virtual data center (VDC) as the unit of resource allocation for multiple tenants in the cloud. VDCs are more desirable than physical data centers becaus...
Chuanxiong Guo, Guohan Lu, Helen J. Wang, Shuang Y...
: With the ever-increasing demands on server applications, reliability is of paramount importance. Often these services are implemented using a distributed server cluster architect...
Clusters of networked, off-the-shelf workstations are currently used for computationintensive, parallel applications. However, it is hardly possible to predict the timing behaviou...
—Server consolidation based on virtualization technology will simplify system administration, reduce the cost of power and physical infrastructure, and improve utilization in tod...